The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-16
LOCAL BItEvITIES
Matters OF Minor Moment iii and About


NI5 luIl Cs the City.
THE property Of Mr.. T. W. Englehsrdt
on Chapline street wss sold Saturday By
Auctioneer Haller for S2,13S. 4t'ls
WILLIAM Roe, Of Martins Ferry, got his
leg broken badly by wrestling with Archy
Neel at Portland laat Saturday night.
JOE PORTER and his aon "Discher" Por.
ter, qusrreled on Saturday night in Full.
ton. Both were pretty well battered up.
The Riverside Paving Brick Company,
at Rush run, is nov employing forty-one
men. They will bs making brick by the
lst Of September. ,5 :.
The civil side of the Municipal Court
opened the August term yesterday. Az
usual there is little business Of importance
to be considered. IL. ~
SATURDAY night thief attempted to Of
fect an entrance to Mr.. ?. Mays residence
on Washington street, Martins Ferry, bu,
WAS driven away. ~ ta. g..
SEVERAL cannon were fred for number
Of hours on the river front at Martins
Ferry last night, to raise the body CT PAUL
Sweeney, but al late hour the body had
not been found. .=T,,
DAVID GORE, the contractor, is pushing
things as fast as possible on the Twenty.
fourth street job. the only drawback being
the scarcity Of brick, caused by the low
stage Of water in the river.
BROWN, the photographer, made very
striking picture the other day OF two
painters at work on the topmoet point of
the Fourth street eteeple. The men show
up in great Shape on their dizzy perch out
lined against the sky. F
A LARGE delivery wagon made too Quick
a turn on the bank Of Caldwell's run yes-
terday, and the team and wagon went
over. The driver jumped and was not
hurt, but "a small boy III the wagon fell in
the run. No serious damage resulted.
AN exceedingly fine and life like euuestri-
an portrait Of the late Colonel Joaeph Tho.
burn, from the EASEL OF Councilman A.
Faris, ia on exhibition at Grubbs jevelry
store. and provokes many enthusiastic
compliments from the old friends of Colo
mel Thoburn. .5i- Q5.l5 Z
Mg. DENNIS HYNlcEKA, who has been
in this city during the past three months
experimenting the reconstruction OF the
Belmont mills blast furnace, left on Sat.
urday for Decatur, Ala, where he has SO.
cured a contract similar to the one lust
completed in this city.
THERE will be- special meeting of the
City Council this evening to consider the
ordinance granting certain rights and
privileges to the Citizens Railway Com.
pany, and to appropriate money to decor.
ate the city's half Of the Public Building
during tho Reunion next week. a,
NOTICE Of the marriage Of Miss Ella
Strad to Nj. James Resrdon, both Of Mar.
tins Ferry, at Steuhenyille on tho 9th day
Of September, 1856, WAS received yestes-
day. This will no doubt as fully aurprise
their many friends as they expected, but
they could not withhold the eecret any
longer. They were yesterday the recipi-
ents OF hearty congratulations. IN '5
The marks last evening indicated 4
depth in the channel Of only 10 inches and
the river was still failing. a light rise
will probably result from yesterdays
rains. 1t would be a grand, good thing II
there could be enough rain this week to
raise the river to such stage that the
steamboats, could enjoy some Of the travel
week. .aa Is i. - 4
TIE Bellaire Tribune says: Patrick Doe,
an umbrella repsirer Of Wheeling, created
considerable, excitement Friday evening
In the First ward, by using obscene Ian.
guage. He was arrested by Officer Love
and locked up in the city prison. He had
hearing before Mayor Brown, and being
unable to pay his fine, he was placed on
the stone pile, where be remains cracking
stone for the benefit Of the city, ~